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Friday, 13 March 2015

Kill a process that won't die when you use End Task in Task Manager

Problem:

Unfortunately, today I have executed a time consuming powershell script through Windows Powershell Command utility. I have waited so much of time to get result but there was no luck, So have decided to terminate the program (kill a process) but it ignores any attempt by Task Manager to kill the process.

Solution: Kill or Terminate a not responding process

After I have analyzed some time found the below solutions for this issue.

Solution 1:

- In Task Manager, go to under the tab Applications and right-click on the program that you want to kill and click Go To Process.

- Then right-click on the highlighted process and click on End Process. You can also try with End Process Tree.

Solution 2:

- You can also use the utility program "Process Explorer" written by Mark Russinowich of Sysinternals...it is available at the Microsoft website....Download the utility from this link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
- Run the Process Explorer utility, locate and kill the corresponding prcoess.